The days of perusing tattoo-parlor walls for that perfect piece of flash, or tattoo-friendly artwork, are giving way to a more tech-savvy alternative: online databases. Inked skin and tattoo ...

Tattoo flash days are not only a way to draw in more traffic, but a way for customers to get a chance to collect tattoos from prominent tattoo artists, who can be booked for months or even years.

“Freaks & Flash” balances these pioneers’ designs with an impressive array of materials by important Midwestern tattoo artists including Rockford, Illinois’s Milton Zeis and Cliff Raven ...

Shaw—whose new book Vintage Tattoo Flash is a collection of 300-plus beautiful, crude, iconic, and forgotten designs from the past century of American tattooing—has been something of a Zelig ...

Tattoo flash art by Owen Jensen, courtesy of the Lyle Tuttle Tattoo Art Collection. For the museum’s blog series commemorating the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, I have focused on ...

Flash tattoos are pre-made designs featuring simple line art that can be done quickly and often cost less than a custom design.

FLINT, MI - A new exhibition at the Flint Institute of Arts is putting tattoo culture in the spotlight with MI Ink: The Art of Tattoos, a creative display of tattoo artistry. The exhibition, that ...